This workshop is heavily hands on and will include instruction in the following areas:
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Knife selection, maintenance, and use including safety, carving techniques, and wood splitting.
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Axe selection, maintenance, and use.
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Saw selection, maintenance, and use.
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Rope selection, maintenance, and use including a few basic knots, hitches, and lashings.
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Outdoor cooking involving metal cookware and using simple techniques to boil water over a fire and cook with cast iron.
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Fire starting utilizing matches and ferro rods. Also including different styles of building and tending fires, as well as firewood selection and conservation.
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Shelter building strategies and concepts including the construction of a “Super Shelter”, easily improvised with a few common pieces of equipment and made popular by Master Bushcrafter Mors Kochanski.
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Camp setup including choosing a location, hygiene principles, camp essentials, and other methods of making your living area in the woods a little more comfortable.
WILDERNESS BUSHCRAFT
Having mad outdoor skills isn’t something you are born with, it’s something only really learned with close instruction. For some people this instruction came from a grandparent, parent, uncle or aunt, in childhood. For everyone else… Earth Native has got your back!
Our expert outdoor instructors want to share some awesome Wilderness Bushcraft skills with you. Become more than competent in the skills that will not only keep you alive in the wilderness but will also help you thrive outside.
This class will focus on the proper use, maintenance and safety of the most useful tools that we utilize in the outdoors, a knife, axe, hatchet, fire starters, rope and lashings, and basic metal cookware.
Dates: TBA
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $195
Location: Earth Native Campus, 137 Woodview Lane, Bastrop, TX
Ages: This is an adult class but open to ages 11+. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult participant with a 1:1 ratio. An enrollment form and payment must be received for each person attending class, regardless of age.
Purchase an Earth Native Klean Kanteen Bottle
Available to buy during registration - pick up at class!
Klean Kanteen
27 oz, Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Sports Top $25
Klean Kanteen
16 oz, TKWide Insulated Hot/Cold Beverage Bottle with Leak-Proof Cafe Cap $25
Klean Kanteen
32 oz, Insulated Wide Mouth Water Bottle with Chug Cap $45
KNIVES FOR PURCHASE
(AVAILABLE TO CHOOSE DURING enrollMENT)
MORA GARBERG STAINLESS STEEL KNIFE
$80
MORA KANSBOL
STAINLESS STEEL KNIFE
$50
MORA COMPANION SPARK FIRE
STAINLESS STEEL KNIFE
$40
MORA CLIPPER COMPANION
STAINLESS STEEL KNIFE
$25